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02378aam a2200397 i 4500 001 781B3202593911EF97E47FEE27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240813010059 008 230922s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2023043135 020 $a 0813951283 020 $a 9780813951287 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Trueheart, Charles, $d 1951-, $e author. 245 1 $a Diplomats at war : $b friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam Conflict / $c Charles Trueheart. 246 3 $a Friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam Conflict. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 346 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 $a Legends of the Fall -- Assignment Saigon -- Two Gentlemen of Virginia -- Sink or Swim -- Doubting Thomases -- Burning Arrow -- Out of Nowhere -- Malice in Wonderland -- The Guns of August -- Silent Treatment -- Waiting for the Generals -- All Saints' Day. 520 $a "Both personal memoir and political history, this book recounts the decisions that fully embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War. Trueheart chronicles the ways in which the breakdown between his godfather, Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, and his father, William Trueheart, second in command at the embassy, led to the breakdown of U.S.-South Vietnamese relations and a violent coup three weeks before President Kennedy was assassinated"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20240604. 600 1 $a Trueheart, William C., $d 1918-1992. 600 1 $a Nolting, Frederick E., $c Jr., $d 1911-1989. 600 1 $a Trueheart, Charles, $d 1951-x Childhood and youth. 600 1 $a Ngô, Äình Diá»m, $d 1901-1963 $x Assassination. 610 1 $a United States $b Foreign Service $x Officials and employees $v Biography. 650 7 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $z United States. 650 $a Diplomatic and consular service $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Diplomats $z United States $x Biography. 651 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Vietnam. 651 7 $a Vietnam $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 7 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1961-1963. 941 $a 1 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240813011805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=781B3202593911EF97E47FEE27ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search